Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:35:04 From: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen-AT-mindspring.com> Subject: US Admits it INTENTIONALLY bombed Red Cross Please note the very last sentence here. This reflects a complete change of tune for the US rationalization, which had previously claimed it had "accidentally" bombed the Red Cross in Afghanistan. - Mitchel Cohen >From an interview on MSNBC, October 31, 2001 www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp?cp1=1 In a suburb of Kandahar, a doctor who said he was injured in the bombing attack that struck the Red Crescent dispensary said the 11 people killed and six injured included patients and staff at the facility. ^ÓThe bombs fell at 4:30 this morning,^Ô Dr. Obaidullah told reporters escorted by the Taliban to the dispensary, his head, right hand and left leg in bandages from wounds he said he had sustained in the raid. Reporters heard U.S. planes dropping bombs on the city in two predawn raids, one of which took place at about 4:30 a.m. The reports of casualties could not be independently verified. U.S. forces had drawn criticism earlier for twice bombing Red Cross warehouses in Kabul. On Tuesday, a senior U.S. military official told NBC News that the Red Cross warehouses were not hit by accident, saying they were bombed because Taliban troops had commandeered the food stored there.
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